QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid!

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world is that way

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• ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It makes perfect sense, we’ve been using it forever, it’s the standard, almost every person that’s taken a typing class for the last 150ish years (in the English speaking world), has done so on a qwerty keyboard. Why bother changing something that just works?

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just because you’re used to something, doesn’t make it good.

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    • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What evidence do you have that QWERTY is bad?

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, and we’ve tried a lot of alternative layouts over the decades.

      None of them stuck around, by and large. Some have ultra-niche followings, sure. But overall, the latin-script world has stuck to (Q|A)WERT(Y|Z). For a reason!

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    • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True. But the rule of thumb is that in order to replace an existing working solution, a new model needs to be at least ten times better in quantifiable ways. Otherwise it’s worth staying with the established solution.

      What’s ten times better than qwerty?

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• ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid!

  I know what you are trying to say but the more times I read your post title, the more I feel like I’m having a stroke.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter

    Or are you have… the stroke?!

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    • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now I’m having another one. I heard if I keep stroking I might go blind (ノ゜ー゜)ノ

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• DrCake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have enough difficulty when a UI decides to use abc layout, no way would I want to learn a new keyboard layout. QWERTY it good enough

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys

  BTW, the supposed origin of the QWERTY layout is uncertain, and the story about it being based around avoiding adjacent bigrams has been called into question often enough (PDF). You can see there plenty images of typewriters that had O next to U still (I was left of U), which if you think about bigrams makes no sense as especially back then it was one of by far the most common ones.

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  • Amir@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I seem to see a story I believed for years get debunked almost weekly now, thanks

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• HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hey OP, could you send some links about QAZWSX? I coulndt find anything

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  • AceSLS@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same here, especially something with AI?

    I’m currenly using Unexpected Keyboard with dvorak layout which works insanely well (especially for Termux and such)

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    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just offered to private message someone an implementation because I didn’t want to be accused of shilling but since you and @happyredditrefugee@lemm.ee are both interested and it would look dodgy to be offering so many private messages, I’ll just post here is that’s okay?

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry, I tried to link you below, but Sync shit the bed.

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    • HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could you dm it to me?

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• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is a QAZWSX keyboard (couldn’t figure it out by web search), and what does keyboard layout have to do with machine learning? I’m genuinely curious.

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just an alternative keyboard layout

    I broke the concept down in more detail here lazysoci.al/comment/9715945

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Qwerty is bad for physical keyboards, but it’s actually pretty good for mobile especially for swipe typing. I use coleman-dh on an ergo split keyboard but i still use qwerty on my phone because it just works better.

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We live in a world whereby we’re lucky enough to have options.

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• VulKendov@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For most people its not worth switching

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is plenty of evidence qwerty is slower there are also plenty of alternatives that get minimal to no use cos well standards.

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